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DBMS > Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. MarkLogic vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

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NameEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Search engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.ehcache.orgwww.geomesa.orgwww.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCCRi and othersMarkLogic Corp.Sphinx Technologies Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20092014200120012011
Current release3.10.0, March 20225.0.0, May 202411.0, December 20223.5.1, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL92SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJCacheJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infoCache Event ListenersnoyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layeryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layeryes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnoBased on Windows Authentication

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